A tale of two golds

I painted two character models for Cursed City, using the same gold paints – Retributor Gold and Liberator Gold, both from Games Workshop. Here is how they each came out:

The difference was in the wash. The human character on the left was painted using what I think of as ‘the Duncan method’ since I literally learned it watching one of Duncan Rhodes’ videos when he was at Games Workshop.

Retributor Gold is followed with a wash of Reikland Fleshshade, then Retributor Gold is laid back on top of this, and highlighted with Liberator Gold.

The Ogre was painted with Retributor Gold, but I used a slightly thinned Black Templar contrast paint as the wash. The rest of the method remained the same, I went back over this with Retributor GOld, and then highlighted with Liberator Gold.

As you can see, these two golds look quite different, and it’s all down to a red/brown wash versus a contrast black. For now, I prefer the look after the contrast black, but that might just be the thrill of the new.